# Elasticsearch vs Turso

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Elasticsearch

| Attribute | Elasticsearch | Turso |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 73 (58% (medium)) | 62.7 (55% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,195 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elasticsearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Gold, Platinum and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"How much does Elasticsearch cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elasticsearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elasticsearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elasticsearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 32 integrations for Elasticsearch, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and GitHub, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elasticsearch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elasticsearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elasticsearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elasticsearch have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elasticsearch available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A Rust-based rewrite of SQLite that extends the database with cloud-native features including vector search, concurrent writes, and replication, while maintaining full SQLite compatibility. It is indexed under Databases.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-introduces-additional-pricing-flexibility-with-support-for-overages-1fbe7e33b704","question":"What is Turso?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Turso offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Scaler and Scaler. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-introduces-additional-pricing-flexibility-with-support-for-overages-1fbe7e33b704","question":"Is Turso free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Turso supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-introduces-additional-pricing-flexibility-with-support-for-overages-1fbe7e33b704","question":"What platforms does Turso support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Turso can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-introduces-additional-pricing-flexibility-with-support-for-overages-1fbe7e33b704","question":"Can Turso be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Turso, including Drizzle, Shopify, Prisma, Cloudflare, Netlify, Remix and Qwik. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-introduces-additional-pricing-flexibility-with-support-for-overages-1fbe7e33b704","question":"What does Turso integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Turso. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Turso not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://turso.tech/blog/turso-achieves-soc2-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Turso have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs. | A managed database service based on SQLite that enables creating many isolated databases with encryption and flexible deployment options, designed for data privacy, residency control, and regulatory compliance. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"ES|QL","data_model":"document","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","replication":true,"sql_support":true,"index_engine":"lucene","licence_class":"source_available","log_analytics":true,"managed_cloud":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","full_text_search":true,"relevance_tuning":"ltr","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","horizontal_scaling":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","data_model":"relational","replication":true,"sql_support":true,"managed_cloud":true,"vector_search":true,"full_text_search":true,"horizontal_scaling":true}` |
| integrations.count | 350 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"NVIDIA AI"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Sarvam AI"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"LlamaParse"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"NVIDIA","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Auth0","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LlamaIndex","category":"ai"},{"name":"Red Hat","category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx","category":"ai"},{"name":"Cohere","category":"ai"},{"name":"LangChain","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"}]` | `[{"name":"Drizzle","native":true},{"name":"Shopify","native":true},{"name":"Prisma"},{"name":"Cloudflare"},{"name":"Netlify"},{"name":"Remix"},{"name":"Qwik"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$99/month","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP","ES|QL query language and APIs","Default monitoring and AutoOps","Alerting with detection engine","Malware prevention","Cloud security posture management","APM, logging, metrics","Synthetic monitoring (limited)","Universal Profiling","LLM observability","Limited support (3-business day response)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Entry-level plan with distributed Elasticsearch across cloud providers, API access, monitoring, security alerts, and observability basics.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"$114/month","features":["All Standard features","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Multi-stack monitoring","Enterprise Search","External detection notifications","Base support (business hours, 1-day response for high)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Standard features plus reporting, enterprise search, advanced security, and base support with business hours availability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"$131/month with SLA","features":["All Gold features","Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)","Vector search with ELSER and e5 models","Cross-cluster replication","Log categorization","Service maps, tail-based sampling","APM correlations","ML-powered SIEM rules","Enhanced support (24/7, 1-hour urgent response)","99.95% uptime SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Gold features plus machine learning, advanced security, vector search with ML models, semantic reranking, and 24/7 support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$184/month","features":["All Platinum features","Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers","Elastic Maps Server","Cross-cluster search with ES|QL","ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder with LLM","AI-powered dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","AI Playground for RAG","Inference Service Management","Semantic reranking with ML models","Learn-to-Rank personalization","Storage optimization (DiskBBQ)","Attack Discovery with agentic investigation","Premium support (30-minute urgent response)","Cloud workload protection"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Platinum features plus searchable snapshots, GPU inference, AI-driven workflows, agent building, data federation, and premium support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Browser Tests","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Lightweight Tests","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-09-07T13:11:22.839Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month - 100 databases, 5GB storage","features":["Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"5GB","databases":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Developer","summary":"$4.99/month (annual) or $5.99/month (monthly)","features":["Unlimited databases","10 days audit logs","3 day DPA retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":4.99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"billion"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"9GB","databases":"unlimited","syncs_monthly":"25M","rows_read_monthly":"2.5B"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scaler","summary":"$24.92/month (annual) or ~$29/month (monthly)","features":["30 days audit logs","14 day DPA retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":24.92,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"billion"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.8,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.8,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"24GB","syncs_monthly":"100M","rows_read_monthly":"100B"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$416.58/month (annual) or ~$499/month (monthly)","features":["90 days audit logs","30 day DPA retention","Priority email support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":416.58,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.45,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"billion"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"50GB","syncs_monthly":"250M","rows_read_monthly":"250B"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["24x7 priority email support"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans from $4.99/month. Metered overage charges for storage, reads, writes, and syncs.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://turso.tech/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-16T15:29:40.012Z","startingPrice":{"amount":4.99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":99,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":4.99,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.17","date":"2026-06-23T13:59:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.6","date":"2026-06-23T14:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.2","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.2"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance | https://turso.tech/blog/tag/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Databases)

| Capability | Elasticsearch | Turso |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Data model | Document | Relational |
| ACID transactions | - | - |
| SQL support | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scaling / sharding | ✓ | ✓ |
| Replication | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vector search | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Managed cloud offering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:29:33.619Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*